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Eddie Cameron is a salesperson for Rocklight Ltd., an electric apparatus company in Glasgow, the place he has been fiddling the firm's costs. Eddie's lifestyles is in tatters - his spouse hates him, and his violent mood has left his mistress teetering at the fringe of sanity.

Initially released to gleaming experiences in 1972, Dow Mossman's first and in basic terms novel is a sweeping coming-of-age story that spans 3 many years within the lifetime of irrepressible Fifties teenager Dawes Williams. incomes its writer comparisons to at the very least James Joyce, J. D. Salinger, and Mark Twain, this nice American novel built a passionate cult following -- at the same time it went out of print for greater than twenty years -- and lately encouraged Mark Moskowitz's award-winning movie Stone Reader.

For her acclaimed number of tales, crimson Ant apartment, Joyce Carol Oates hailed Ann Cummins as “a grasp storyteller. " The San Francisco Chronicle known as her “startlingly unique. " Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes declare to wealthy new literary territory with a narrative of straddling cultures and dishonest destiny within the American Southwest.

James Joyce’s Ulysses first seemed in print within the pages of an American avant-garde journal, The Little overview, among 1918 and 1920. the unconventional many deliberate to be crucial literary paintings of the 20 th century used to be, on the time, deemed obscene and scandalous, leading to the eventual seizure of The Little assessment and the putting of a criminal ban on Joyce’s masterwork that will now not be lifted within the usa till 1933.

All Asanka is familiar with is poetry. From his humble village beginnings within the nice island country of Lanka, he has risen to the celebrated place of court docket poet and now delights in his lifetime of ease: composing romantic verses for love-struck courtiers, having fun with the boldness of his king and covertly educating Sarasi, a gorgeous and beguiling palace maid, the secrets and techniques of his artwork.

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